Do not be afraid, for I am with you;
I will bring your children from the east
and gather you from the west.
Isaiah 43:5

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

DTC is Coming Soon

I had all the rest of the paperwork for our dossier to Dillon by 10am this morning. We do not have anymore paperwork to do until we get a referral. Bethany, our caseworker, said that we should be DTC by the end of the month! While we wait we have some parent education classes and books to read. Parenting an internationally, adopted child is not the same as parenting a biological child. Depending on her age and temperament we may have some pretty big hurdles.Here's to praying that the wait shortens. Not just for our sake, but mostly for all the orphans' sake.

About Me

I am a wife to a wonderful man, and a mother of five beautiful, healthy children. If I had time, I would get organized, read, research stuff, exercise (pressing on!), and take more naps. We live in the great state of Oklahoma. Life is good. God is great!

A List of Common Adoption World Abbreviations and Terms

SWI - Social Welfare Institution, the orphanage, but also sometimes an orphanage and a home for the elderly

SN - Special Need, some of the families request a child with a special need, we have chosen not to

LID - Log In Date, the date your dossier is officially logged in in China

Travel Group - All the other families who have the same DTC/LID date as we do and we will all travel together unless one of them chooses a child with a special need. Usually all the referrals in a group come from the same orphanage, which will be another thing we will have in common with our travel group.

I-171h - a PPP that we waited 6 weeks on so we could finish our dossier

USCIS - United States Citizenship and Immigration Services

Bethany - Our adoption case worker at Dillon who is very patient and has a great sense of humor

Dillon - Our adoption agency, which we love, is based in Tulsa, but serves many parts of the country, and it's Christian based

PPP - Pretty Peace of Paper, once you have received the pesky one it becomes the pretty one ;)

PPP - Pesky Piece of Paper, which is any piece of important paper you are waiting on

Referral - The first picture you see of the child you have been matched with and a brief medical history